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单词 to dream up
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to dream up
to dream up
transitive. Originally: to imagine or envisage in or as in a dream. Now chiefly: to devise (an idea, plan, etc., esp. one that is ingenious or fanciful); to invent, think up.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > imagine or visualize [verb (transitive)]
seeOE
thinkOE
bethinkc1175
devise1340
portraya1375
imagec1390
dreama1393
supposea1393
imaginea1398
conceive?a1425
fantasyc1430
purposea1513
to frame to oneselfa1529
'magine1530
imaginate1541
fancy1551
surmit?1577
surmise1586
conceit?1589
propose1594
ideate1610
project1612
figurea1616
forma1616
to call up1622
propound1634
edify1645
picture1668
create1679
fancify1748
depicture1775
vision1796
to conjure up1819
conjure1820
envisage1836
to dream up1837
visualize1863
envision1921
pre-visualize1969
1837 Morning Chron. 12 Jan. With our Shakespeare in hand, and bright forms in our brain, we can dream up our Siddons and Kembles again.
1867 B. Brierley Marlocks of Merriton 53 Everything [sc. plants and trees personified] appeared to be dreaming up old memories.
1904 R. E. Young Henderson iii. 81 He..shook himself out of the dream: ‘Oh, you fool!’ he told himself sharply; ‘always dreaming up some smoke-woman, some bachelor's comfort.’
1916 N.Y. Tribune 8 June 11/1 I'd try to dream up some new scheme and never thought I'd do it.
1950 Manch. Guardian Weekly 16 Nov. 3 A slick political trick, such as might have been dreamed up by a bright Chicago wardheeler.
1997 Food & Wine Sept. 73/2 ‘Guido Reni? What made you dream that up?’‘I didn't dream it up,’ said Carlo. ‘It is a Bolognese dish that goes back for generations.’
2004 Daily Tel. 11 Aug. 21/4 Senior officers who..are not obsessed with dreaming up some whizzy new scheme in order to achieve the next rank.
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